Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d51da56dab909d85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.4 KB
MD5: 27c3d14dadab5916714b898155162460 SHA-1: 91b7547a099e7ad270506ec65a342507b2f20c90 SHA-256: d51da56dab909d853bd83c17fb8bff0cb7d064431cd0c214be980a0d05dbffd0
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF utilizes XFA forms and contains embedded JavaScript, flagged by both heuristics and ML classification. The embedded JavaScript, specifically 'acroform_b64_00.js', appears to be heavily obfuscated but likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of these elements strongly suggests a malicious intent, likely for malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 3

  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off00001d3d.js
367ec4d73b3719c0d903067311b86eb113cba42773c76a8fb31fc47f43567188
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1D3D 4660 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).
acroform_b64_00.js
949cdeef4e7ee0784bce540877e1244e2f0f1b06f86a1db95bb0f0fbcbf970de
deobfuscated-js PDF AcroForm base64 (decompressed) at offset 0xE9 8736 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).